On 2014-03-25 05:40, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2014-03-24 20:07, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>> Hello Gary, >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Gary Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I have a board which uses the i.MX6solo chip. This CPU (SOC) has >>>> a different GPU than its cousins i.MX6Q and i.MX6dual. When I try >>>> to run anything using the accelerated graphics, e.g. X server using >>>> the Vivante libraries, it crashes hard. >>>> >>>> I know that my SOC has a Vivante GC880 whereas the i.MX6Q uses the >>>> Vivante GC2000. >>>> >>>> Is there any way to get Vivante GPU support for my board/SOC? >>> >>> Well, it is lacking a lot of information so it is quite hard to guess. >>> My guess is that you have an old BSP kernel and without the 4.6.9p13 >>> patches. When those things happen you see a segfault in Xorg >>> initialization using the Vivante drivers. >> >> This well could be - I use the linux-boundary recipe for 3.0.35+ >> (my board is nearly identical to a SabreLite from Boundary Devices) > > Currently linux-boundary has it right. It depends if you have dropped > the patches applied in our recipe or not. > >> I'm a bit confused by the '4.6.9p13' reference. Is that part of >> a GPU recipe version? or a kernel version? > > Yes, GPU driver version. > >> Can you point me to any discussion of this, or the kernel (which tree) >> revision that made this change, etc? > > https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra/commit/37c793bea49a1140a414660c262d62c3e2b130c9 >
Yes, it seems that I had missed this patch which seems to have only been on master-next until 2014-03-20. I'll give it another go now. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- _______________________________________________ meta-freescale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-freescale
